The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-30
FASHIONS IN JEWELS.
Miss Mary Anders ms Mascot-A Few
Magnificent Gems.
copyrighted 1887


copyrighted 1897.
| New YORK, Oct 29-''If l had Mary
Anderson's pearl would ask fate for moth
ing more"
The lady who spoke was delighting the
| eyes of two or three acquaintance with the
| contents of a number Of jewel cases by no
means empty.
1T is a mascot with Mary Anderson
she went on, land you cannot wonder for
though not one of the largest it is one of the
most perfect shaped and most beautiful
pearls in the world A pearl is Just the
jewel for her, white, cold and fair. and she
never lets this one leave her person. l have
turned my opera glass on her twenty times
| when she was on the stage, and never failed
to discover that pearl somewhere in her
| toilet. She wears it in her hair, on her
| throat, her finger, catching up the draper
| les of her gown. She says it means peace
| and rest to her and she could not act If She
did not touch it before she stepped in front
of the footlghts and did not have it where
her eye could fall upon il in her most trying
parts
People make idG of the jewels they like.
and Mary Anderson's pearl fetch is only
one of score of instances that any
one with precious stones among his acquain-
tances could name. There is Teresina Tua,
Americans believe she deserves her Euro
pean reputation, and who trembles in fear
of imminent misfortune whenever a par
ticular stone in a crescent of diamonds
which the Gar of Russia gave her loosens
or needs resetting. There is Fanny Daven-
port, who reverses the popular opal super
stition and carries two or three unset opals
for fair fortune always in her pocket.
There is Bernhardt, who will never be with
cta lOff bn han nd Il
sorts valued by the Italian nobility about
her dress or the toilet articles that She en-
ploys There is Edith Kingdon-G Could who
is accommodating jewels rapidly and sets
an especial value on the fine diamonds that
she buys.
New York women wear great many jew
els on appropriate occasions nowadays, and
it is easily seen what stones are favorites
with individual society leaders. Mrs Corne-
Illus Vanderbilt has magnificent gems, and is
plainly partial to fine solitaire diamonds.
Mrs. Marshall 0. Roberts delights in rubies
and yellow diamonds. Mrs Walter Onslow
used to wear pearls, but since fashion began
to smile so warmly on green has shown an
affection for emeralds. Mrs. Ogden Mills
prefers turquoises and sapphires. Mrs.
Townsend Burdens favorite Jewels are ru-
bies of the deepest and reddest type. Mrs
August Belmont's weakness is for laces and
next them she is content with cut jet, which
she prefers even TO the diamonds which she
sometimes wears Miss Adele Grant is
never over-anxious to wear jewels, but likes
pearls and onyx better than other stones.
Miss Eleanor Winslow takes to diamonds
and plenty of them at that. Mrs. NJ. Liv-
ingston often displays cats eye. Mrs. Orme
Wilson likes a combination of pearls and
turquoisss, or black pearls or strings of large,
pear shaped pearls.
For the actresses, most of them change
their gems to suit their whims. Clara Nor
ris is fairly constant to rubies. Mrs Lang
try has a pet turquoise, Ada Rehan rather
leans to sapphires and Mime. Modieska in
vests heavily in diamonds, the finest she
can get. as does Lolita whenever she has q
good year.
Zone has to be original this winter or out
of the word.n
A pair of earrings, one holding big pear
shaped, milky white pearl, the other its count
erpart i'll an equally large black pearl, the
set valued at SIC, 900, provoked this remark,
from the representative of house which
has finer collection OF jewels than most of
the crowned heads Of Europe, a day or two
since
Bizarre, out of place, to wear odd Jew
els togetherf Not in the least, it is the
the latest idea. White pearl for one ear,
black pearl for the other. II is UNIQUE, il
is distinguished, it doesn't 'match, " and
women are tired of matching, you know
1t is chic, and that combines all possible
praises in one. 1t looks as if you disre-
garded the conventions, and it has come TO
be one of the most rigid of all New York
conventions that conventions are made to be
disregarded, and that woman who wants a
reputation for fine dressing must win it by
being daring even to the verge of being
Outre now and then.
"'Other gems used in the same wayp
Yes, indeed, numbers of them,n so my in
fornant chatted on "In earrings, for in
stance, a ruby for one side Of the head and
sapphire for the other is fancy that this
winter will go excellently well. Turquoises
and diamonds is an idea that has been taken
up by few, but the lustre of these stones
is so different that scintillating from the
right ear and the left they give an incon-
gruous appearance that one does not get
from the other gems. In flower jewelry it
is not at all out of order to choose a rose
bud and a violet TO wear as earrings to-
gether or to contrast a pansy and daisy in
the same way"
There never was a time, so | learned on
further inquiry, when SO many small dia-
monds were used as now. The large single